Never had an under 4:00 timeout in that game

Never had an under 4:00 timeout in that game
by Kayo (2020-05-06 07:29:30)
Edited on 2020-05-06 10:57:42

In reply to: 2003 versus Pitt was at the game posted by Ajax

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No fouls called in the last 4:00. No balls out of bounds to stop the clock. Just a couple of 30-second timeouts that weren't turned into full timeouts for media in thse days.

It was continuous basketball with no lead greater than 4 points from the media timeout with 7:21 left until the end of the game.

That was a seriously tough Pitt team - Jaron Brown, Brandin Knight, Carl Krauser, Ontario Lett, Julius Page, Chevon Troutman... a bunch of badasses. Clean players, but tough.

The Irish had their own tough guys - Dan Miller, Torrian Jones, Matt Carroll, and of course Tom Timmermans.

Tough, physical basketball without sacrificing the beauty of the game.

Addendum:

I wonder if Francis would have caught the ball and turned it into a shot so smoothly later in his career. He was not the same guy after his back injury. His movements were not as fluid, and he dropped a lot of passes and rebounds which are ways a serious back injury shows itself.

The minimal amount of stoppages

Made the end of that game very exciting.

Thomas with a couple of bone headed plays early on in the video.

That open trey ND gave up in the zone was terrible. The trey in the MTM was not because of atrocious defense.

It would be easy to criticize the Pitt big man for giving up inside position to Francis, but he probably was expecting a shot to go up.

I still say the NCAA changed the spaces on the FT lane because of the way Troutman and Lett would just shove guys under the basket when Pitt was shooting FT's.

And wow- Mike Brey looked super skinny in 2003.

4:45 mark...is that Mike Brey or Jerry Seinfeld? *